In Fear - British Production Context

The movie In Fear is a film in horror genre, this is because of all the narrow roads which might make the viewer seem uncomfortable and even claustrophobic, not only because of the narrow roads but also because the main characters are stuck in their car, which might not be a safe place, as anyone can easily brake the window and get to them. Also, the unexplainable situations that happen show the horror genre. This is because the main characters appear to be in some kind of a labyrinth from which there isn't any way to escape, which scares the viewer as they imagine how they would feel if they were in such a situation. The last aspect that represents the horror genre of the movie is the darkness and the night that finally crosses the path of the characters. The darkness is a classical theme that appears in horror movies, as it hides the unseen terrors from the viewers and that's what scares them the most.

The production context into which the film In Fear fit into is the British context, this is because it stars  mostly UK actors and the action is happening within the UK. Also, most of the action is happening within one place, which is visited over and over by the characters, and most of the action is shown in the car, they barely get out of it. And most of all there aren't that many characters used in this movie when comparing it to the Hollywood or Bollywood productions. Talking about the characters, the 3 stars that were presented in the movie are quite popular Iain De Caestecher, Alice Englert and Allen Leech have played in many productions before, this means that the British production context does use popular people, unlike the Bollywood context which uses the local people which aren't really known around the world.

The film In Fear represents the British production context by different aspects, like by the narrative, characters, dialogues and locations used. The dialogue is reflects the British context by the strong use of British accent by the actors, which instantly communicates the production context to the audience. Also, they use slang language sometimes in the movie and there is slight bad language, which is quite common in British films. Another aspect is the location; the whole movie was filmed in the UK which is not only shown by the classic UK countryside but also, by the weather. It starts to rain during the movie and it does so for quite a long time, I suppose that this was made on purpose to represent the British production context, much clearer, to the viewer. Furthermore, the characters show that the audience are watching a British production context movie, as two of the actors originate from UK, so having a UK cast only strengthens the idea of a British context. The British style narrative is reflected by the use of effects, which weren’t as spectacular as Hollywood production context uses, without massive explosions or incredible CGI effects, but the narrative in this situation is much more important than the SFX, which shows the British production context as they try to make the narrative of the film more effective than the effects that are shown in it.

 

The technology that was used in this film relates to the production context as there was no CGI used or any special make-up apart from the blood. It relates because British production context is much different from the other contexts, it doesn’t use SFX as often as Hollywood for example but puts more work into the quality of the movie, rather than the quantity of special effects or CGI. This film was much different from the other ones which I have looked at, because of many aspects; some of them include the use of CGI, or SFX make-up. For example This film is different from World War Z because they, massively used CGI to create the zombies, or various explosions, which isn’t really seen in the film In Fear, that’s why it is completely different from the Hollywood context. Also, in In Fear they didn’t use any SFX make-up to make a person look like someone else, just like in the film Rise of the Zombie where they placed a lot of make-up on the actor to make him look like a zombie. In film In Fear they have only used some blood to show wounds, whereas in the Bollywood production context they have used much more make-up.